Beng language

Beng
	Ngain
Region	Ivory Coast
Native speakers	(17,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Mande Eastern Mande South(east)ern Nwa–Beng? Gban–Beng? Beng; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; nhb – Beng; gnj – Ngen
Glottolog	beng1291 Bengic[2]

Beng (Ben) is a Mande language of Ivory Coast. The Ngen dialect, perhaps a closely related language, is spelled various ways, including Gan, Ngain, Ngan, Ngin, Nguin.

Paperno describes Beng and Gbin as two primary branches of Southern Mande.

References

Beng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ngen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bengic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Grammatical sketch of Beng

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[e18-1] Beng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ngen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bengic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.